Surrounded and touched by hundreds of visitors and tourists "in love", the bronze statue of Juliet in the courtyard of the "house" of the same name in the center of Veronasi is worn to the point of holes.
The hole - L'Arena reports today - was noticed on the right breast of the figure of the Shakespearean heroine.
The one in the courtyard of the famous balcony, however, is an identical copy of the original statue, which is kept inside the house museum, a work forged in 1972 by the sculptor Nereo Costantini.
The replacement was carried out in 2014, due to the wear of the original statue.
The intervention cost around 15 thousand euros, financed by Società Cattolica Assicurazioni.
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